A new website has been launched that will allow garden centres to publicise their Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day events to customers, local and national press and a much wider audience via social media.
Hundreds of garden retailers are expected to participate in the fourth annual Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day, which takes place on March 27 next year. The event aims to boost the early spring sales season, whilst raising funds for Greenfingers, the small national charity dedicated to creating gardens in children's hospices across the UK.

Garden centres wanting to take part should register on the website, and can take advantage of free publicity for their events by filling in the form at www.gardenreleaf.co.uk/register-an-event. Each event then appears in the site's events section, and is searchable by area to help the public find their local participating garden centre.

Early registration on the site also means events will have a chance to be publicised by the central Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day communications team, bringing industry-wide recognition to individual garden centres' fundraising plans.

The website also features news, galleries of events from previous years and information on how the money raised is spent, including images of Greenfingers children's hospice gardens which have already benefited.

The organisers of Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day are currently ramping up promotional activity in time for next year's event. Ideas already on the cards include hosting the popular Greenfingers Garden Re-leaf Day Gardening Quiz; getting involved with the Loose Change promotion; sponsored cycle ride; and fun family activities such as making cress heads and sowing sunflowers.